Re: Article - Why the Loebner Prize Will Never Be Won...

I assume you hold this competition every year because you want to try and
motivate people to create artificially intelligent machines so they can be
used as a tool to help mankind. It would be pointless to try and motivate
people to try and find alternative methods of creating human beings. A human
being is a human being regardless of how it was made, it will still have the
same faults and the same rights of every other human being. Some would argue
that an intelligent machine should still have rights, I'd have to agree but
there is nothing to stop us from creating a machine that is intelligent but
doesn't feel pain and really enjoys scrubbing the floor. I suppose you could
create an artificial human being using the method you described but without
the ability to feel pain and boredom and also enjoy scrubbing floors. But
this wouldn't be allowed because people would argue that we could take
perfectly healthy people off the streets and modify them to suit our needs,
we could modify their brains so they don't feel pain and feel incredibly
happy while ironing shirts, the more creases the happier!. The movie 'A
Clockwork Orange' has just come to mind.

We're going to have a hard time placing a line between what is human and
what is machine. Ultimately, we will all decide for ourselves.


Something to think about:

If somebody told you tomorrow that your child was really a machine and that
your real child actually died at birth then would it effect your opinion of
your child. Because something is a machine then does it automatically give
you the right to use it as a tool?

If we can abuse artificial machines then can we abuse people with artificial
bodies?

Ethics are artificial...

I guess we'll do what we've always done. We'll bend our morals to suit us.
Just lets hope they don't break.




"Hugh Loebner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> As a matter of fact the current rules _do_ allow DNA based entities.
> Turing wrote: "Finally, we wish to exclude from the machines men born
> in the usual manner."
>
> An organic entity constructed entirely "from scratch," e.g. starting
> with atomic Carbon, Oxygen, Iron, Hydrogen, etc., using the human
> genome as a template would be allowable under current rules, and
> should be able to pass the test.  All (!) that is needed is to grind
> out a DNA molecule, embed it in an artificial ovum, and let it develop
> in an artifical womb.  Tough to do, but by no means impossible.
>
> HGL
>
>
> "Fred Flintstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > What hardware did you have in mind?  What, in any case, is inadaquate
> > > with today's 1+ Ghz 500+ Meg machines?  What more do you need?  Do you
> > > have a handy neural net you want to enter?
> >
> > Is a humanoid robot allowed to enter?
> >
> > I suppose its mind could be downloaded to a computer and then entered
into
> > the competition.